When both are blood brothers and upper castes are Aryans and hence our oppressors, how Brother Neerav Patel, an eminent Dalit poet with deep knowledge of Indian history and its social contradictions can come to the conclusion that there is a “clash of culture” between the two? From centuries we have been fighting our sole Aryan oppressors. Nowhere in India we have any evidence of clash between Dalits and Muslims.
Real obstacle: Yes, the elite Muslims-fair-skinned and English-educated are the real obstacle. They are coming in the way of the unity. These elite Muslims have not embraced their own “low caste” Muslim weavers, butchers, sweepers.
In Bihar, the Backward Muslim Morcha (BMM) led by Dr. Ejaz Ali is fighting not the Dalits but his own elite Muslim brothers who are coming in the way of their human rights.
Laloo’s dilemma in Bihar: Laloo Prasad Yadav told us that though he was very much in favour of supporting the BMM demands, he was under pressure from elite Muslims not to accept such demands “as it would divide the Muslims”. We faced the same charge when we supported the BMM struggle.
We do agree that Muslims tend to live in psychological isolation despite the fact the two live together and sweat together. This is their greatest drawback.
And this drawback has caused a great cultural divide making the Muslims not to understand the simple fact that Untouchables are not Hindu and never Hindu
Editor’s plea ignored: In Ahmedabad, where all the Muslim leaders know us, they did not heed our repeated warning to join hands with Dalits when the latter was being attacked by the upper castes during the 1981 and 1985 “Gujarat caste war”. Had the Muslims then joined the Dalits the Dalit-Muslim unity by now would have been 15 years old.
Ever since the Gujarat genocide, we must have addressed innumerable meetings, met hundreds of Muslims but despite our two-decade long unity efforts Muslims still think that Dalits are Hindu. For them everybody is a Hindu except Christians. Such is the appalling poverty of thinking among Muslims..
Defects of madrasa education: This is mainly because the madrasa education teaches them nothing about India’s caste system of which the Dalits are the worst victims. Nor do they learn anything about Indian history. Islam may be revolutionary but Indian Muslims did not produce any revolutionary after “independence”.
Even after the Gujarat genocide, there is no fresh thinking among the Muslim leadership to revise the madrasa education system and include social science, Indian history and English language.
Over 2,000 Muslims have been slaughtered in Gujarat. But we find no change in the thinking of Muslim leadership though it is a life and death. issue.
Brother Neerav is right. The brahminical forces have stolen a 100-year march over Muslims and scored a big victory in hinduising the non-Hindu Untouchables.
What Hindus are doing is a destructive work. We are not asking Muslims to be destructive. We want them to do the constructive work of embracing a co-sufferer and together fight a historical battle to save India from the vultures. But the Muslin leadership simply does not understand what we say though they admit that Dalit Voice is their sincere well-wisher.
Dr. Ambedkar Jinnah unity: With great forethought, the Hindus did not give any chance for unity between Dr. Ambedkar and M.A. Jinnah though both had everything in common and fought the same enemy.
We may have thousand and one complaint against the cruel brahminical forces but every time they score over us because they are an alert animal. But both Dalits and Muslims have become culturally a dead people. The upper castes will make the two fight each other and kill each other. Now, they have added another to the list. BCs are also called the enemies of Dalits. But the real enemy is hiding.
We are sorry that Brother Neerav despite all his sharp intellect and deep knowledge of history is not able to see through the brahminical game to divide brothers and make them kill each other. Dalit-Muslim-Backward Caste unity alone will establish Bahujan Samaj. The Aryans in their interest may divide us. But is it in our interest to get divided? Dalit-Muslim-BC unity is a time-tested, historically proved formula upheld by Dr. Ambedkar, India’s greatest social scientist.
We have no right to change even a comma.
